Max Perutz

Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914-6 February 2002) was an Austrian-British molecular biologist whose studies of the structures of hemoglobin and myoglobin won him the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Biography
Max Perutz was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1914 to Catholic parents of Jewish origin, and he completed his chemistry degree at the University of Vienna in 1936. When Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938, his family fled to Switzerland, and he moved to the United Kingdom after the end of World War II. From 1962 to 1979, he chaired the Medical Research Council and the the Labortary of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge, and he won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his studies of the structures of hemoglobin and myoglobin, later winning the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. He died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England in 2002 at the age of 87.